Its still just a Commodore

Holden is doing its bit for climate change and the environment by revealing at the 2008 Melbourne Motor Show the fastest car ever to be produced in Australia.  The HSV W427 is a Commodore-based four-door sedan with a 7.0-litre engine producing 370kW of power - almost 500 horsepower.

A mildly different production version of the W427 show car - a one-off concept created for the motor show - will go on sale towards the middle of 2008 priced somewhere between $140,000 and $170,000.

Now the obvious question is why the hell does Australia need a 7 litre petrol guzzler?  Holden, and the people it intends to market this car at, obviously haven’t heard of, or don’t give a rat’s arse about, fossils fuels being a limited resource, climate change, the environment, social responsibility or anything like that.    Also, whats the point of being able to go 3 times the maximum speed limit, its not like it can ever be used like that on the road?

I guess the price is going to put it out of the range of all but the most cashed up bogans, which is fortunate.  Imagine some of the bogans that hang out at the V8 Supercar races getting behind the wheel of a car that that.

At the end of the day, though, no matter how Holden dresses this up as a performance, high end vehicle, its still just a glorified Commodore.  If I was going to spend $150k on a car (which I assure you isn’t going to happen), I’d want something more prestigious than a Holden Commodore.